The only WHITE laborer on a construction job.
I got out of the Navy, was waiting to start training at a Police Academy,
training did not start for 3 mos. Had to support my wife and 2 kids at the time.
Started as a laborer for a company where all the bricklayers were white, the
mason tenders were all BLACK [the guys who mixed the mortar and wheelbarrow-ed it up a
construction elevator to the masons.] Worked my ass off from daylight to dark as
the BLACK laborers come and went, they typically worked until noon time, quit
and filed for unemployment. Damnedest thing I had ever witnessed. After 3 weeks
of busting my ass, the foreman come to me and asked if I would go to their shop
and rebuild about 18 gas engines on misc. equipment. More money, fu ck this
job site bullshit. I was an Engineman on a Fast Attack Sub. small gas engines
were not much of a challenge. Never mixed any more mortar for anyone
except myself .
